THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
*1956.
*Page 19
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
FASHION IS MOVING FASTER THAN EVER
VERYONE
E busines
iH
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
London eight all over the country
tho by the ond of August. says Mo-- The most complicated Paris detinez wore ready soon after. fashion has never moved 20
Manufacturers went to Paris in fast. This autumn, new
early August, showed their new clothes have been made, de ringes about four weeks later, livered, bought att
and had the first chiffon dresses, one to three months quicker cape coats, and peglop
rendy for the shops by carly than ever ifore.
worn
Parks
It started with hats. High
tuts (shown shaggy
July)
I
'+sel
be
Oetober.
skirts
**** shop buyers usually used Tortes, went for the new cloches with audacity.
Feathery helmet and cap from Otto Lucas,
One manufacturer delivored 500 Dutch Boy suita a month
ngo,
Another sold 150 inagnet lino conts in a week.
Another Bold 100 chiffon dresses a fortnight.
Another rold BB long-skirted My Fair Lady sults-an CHOT- mious figure considering the ex-
· Iremeness of this lino.
For sheer Paco, take tho Ulanova hits shown on right.
after Two days
14,000,000 people saw Ulanova dance Swan Lake on TV, range of Swan Lake hats, fenthered trifles 11- spired by Ulanova's miracle dancing, was designed and com- pluted.
And what about the stodgy old English customer? She's gone berserk. She's buying and wearing and liking everything now.
I STOOD in Bond Street and counted the suits go by. Eighteen Young short Juckets ugainst seven of the old, old kind cut long at ripped in at the waist.
I WENT to a party und thore were three short chiffon dresses tal of 20. And nor One of those dull, long dinner dresses with a nire bit of detall on the bodico.
I WATCHED the soft, draped cocktail dressed y out of u dress department. Two sales of these for every one of last year's et, bell-skirted kind.
Fashion has taken a shot in the urm.
We are speeding up to the American pace.
WHEN BERETS TELL A TALE . . .
KOME BAY you end read П woman'k character by look- ink into her eyes. waleling her hands, listening to her talk,
or reading her stars,
I say you can read
her character by w.eam the way she aberel:
I'M A FASHION ATODEL..
FVE BEEN WEARING ONE OF THENK AL. MY LIFE.
I'VE GOT
LEANINGS.
A GOOD FAMILY.
ARTISTIC
WHEN it comes to fiattery. In clothes, women de- signers win hands down. Spain's only top woman couturier, Amunolon Bastida, presents this little black number for; winter cocktail parties. It is in clinging black jersey and black taffeta, with a "harem" hemline..
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Soap and hot!
I'M FROM
TVK COME TO TOWN TO
DO BOME SHOPPING.
The Swan Queen hat, with ballerino eyes and hair-do, by Otto Lucas,
In Spain A Woman's Dress Expresses Personality
Her
FASHION in Spain is a £60.
And
the
English
her
"Visagist" predicts what will happen a few decades from now ----
Girls
Own
To Pick
Their Figure Patterns
New York. Senz said a girl eventually can may be able to select her own
Nicholas Dr
WELL, girls, we Why the double china complexio
complexion. He ciled current
G.
conducting
Park
highly individual woman would save £100 if and crows' feet another few Georoglade is business. A woman may she did her high-fashion years, we'll all be beautiful. study at Duke University inder
from grant No more wrinkles. No Research
Playtex Institute in which spend days selecting her shopping in Spain on style, choosing
from a that more waistline worries, And ekin is borrowed dress summer holidays P maker,
don't like some of patient, grown in the laboratory buying material is, if she could persuade her if we
for re-graft, and accessories, and having husband to spare the foreign the things nature blessed and returned many sizes larger her fittings. But at least currency.
us with, change 'em.
In approximately two weeks, One internationally known that original piece of skin. she knows that her dress is Only one
of the Spanish makeup consultant today grows to 10 times the Initial an expression of her own couturicas La Q women
size. held out such hopes, if we personality and she will Asuncion Bastida. Like most
The purpose of this projees medical-helping to sove women designers, her clothes can last until the year 2,000. is never meet its fellow.
are softer and more flattering Eddie Senz, who han some of the thousands who de
"restyled" many a movie from burns each year, glamour girl, said camou- SMOOTH, SOFT SKIN flage has come a long way →→NO BLEMISHES
than the male creations. Lote
DRESSMAKERS GALORE
of little black draped dresses and shart chiffon evening There is little ready-to- frocks, youthful numbers that wear business, as we know will live la a ripp old age. it, But there are thousands of small dressmakers, pre- pared to make by hand and embroider it, too, for a few pounds,
dress
offer the world of fashijont
What do I think Spain has Colour first, then fabrics at budget price, and embroidery and hand finish this ta out of this world.
com-
from the ⚫ days when But, Senz sald, couldn't # Cleopatra concocted her also assure milady in the year exotic preparations. But he 2,000 a smooth, soft skin-tres figured the best years are of surgical cars, birthmarke ahead, the way beauty ex- and blemishes?
Senz
himself Calix ports and scientists are logist, creating the illusion working to find the fountain:",
of beauty by "balancing a of youth.
face or getting it to its bes proportions through arrangör SELECT OWN
ment of hair, the line of the. brows, mouth and neckline. COMPLEXION,
There are seven major
MOONLIT FASHION couture houses, divided be tween Barcelona
Next summer the first and Madrid. I found most of bined showing of several of the top Spanish designers will talco these collections strongly in place in the Costa Brava at fluenced by Paris. Capos, 'ngaro, the fabulous hotel sheath dras808, Cossack where Ava Gardner, Artie Shaw, hata, little chiffon dinner and Frank Sinatra go for their dictions, frocka, fur trimming....all holidays.
year 2000, and came up He crystal-gazed into the
with some comforting, pre-
Take hair colours.
the French gimmicka, But The hotel is the dream child a girl will be able to choose Hs
mood of the occasion. ho said.
the
bull, overy house design be easy to chalige=JUBEZE there are woollen," cotton, his own höisi, night club, mong gissolve them with a harmoĀT
the wall and food the living Ho pelotes that one day a women could press a button in room with the most nattering light shade for her skin, half, eyes and comume Senz said every morning Even at keyed to the Axured list advances a really Spanish note is the of Jowo Ensest, known to
of since has made in compounds exquisite embroidery and locals as "Mr Cowin Braya" from a wide range
Thirty-three year: nem ho de- shades, in Aerosol con- which pre-shrinks: woollens and beautiful hand finish.". termined, to bydid the ideal | taipera, which will spray on cottone misht
be applied fast dip -Fabrics, too, are excel holiday centre on the uniform coat of whatever. John Bolton will
strikas her fancy :: Colours lent. In: Barrelona, centro. peen plented.
into shaped of the textie ndustry, FORD
beally supert, said by lo it in with his nians.) He h
De ta pati pentury, p leas rinse.....
be able to pick, hop nylon and silk milia.
anny or and rollos pf woR WAK.
and read clothes, terrace and is decorsfods and Every, how putte ham ta qen
muscle toners about furnished, is different style
the form
"The fashion
Prices for couture ara lower in Spain, one third of Paris [of "London" and its is why many BIBI
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